“investments in Ukraine are very profitable today, because for relatively little money in the interests of the United States, it is not Americans who die in the war with Russia, but Ukrainians.”

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/gen-jack-keane-us-investment-ukraine-denied-putin-ambitions-kept-americas-future-secure

If this doesn’t tell people that the US regards the Ukrainians as sacrificial pawns, cannon fodder, I don’t know what will. Keane is wrong or disingenuous regarding Putin’s intentions. As far as I can see Putin’s ambitions for Russian expansion were economic not military. The US cannot beat Russia and China in the economic sphere and so are choosing the military one to weaken their opponent. I’m not a particularly clever fellow and I haven’t done extensive research but I’ve listened to people like Noam Chomsky, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Cohen, Jeffery Sachs and Oliver Stone. Moreover I’ve listened to American presidents and pundits and apparatchiks. I have seen the pattern of lies that have excused wars and the consequences of those wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. I know that the US orchestrated the 2014 coup in Ukraine and that Zelensky is a corrupt politician put in place by oligarchs and kept in line by violent ultra nationalists, I know that Russia has sought peace for eight years through the Minsk accords than would have kept the now annexed provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk within Ukraine but with a measure of security, I know that these accords were not honoured and that the breakaway provinces were attacked by Kiev regime forces with civilians being targeted and killed by these forces. I know that most people only know the bits of the story that our politically controlled media permit them to see and that they consider dissenting media such as the Greyzone to be ‘conspiracy theorists’ and ‘Putin apologists’. I know these things not because I am clever but because I have questioned and looked. I urge those who have not questioned and not looked to start doing so now. You do not have to believe that Putin is our friend, I do not believe that he is, I believe that he is only the friend of the Russian people. I don’t believe that the leaders of the US, of the UK and of Germany are the friends of their own people. Do not depend on them to serve our interests or to tell us the truth.